Alexander HEASLOP

Service Number:	2645
Enlisted:	29 January 1916, Place of Enlistment Cairns, Queensland.
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	3 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
Born:	Cooktown, Queensland, Australia , 27 December 1894
Home Town:	Cooktown, Cook, Queensland
Schooling:	Cooktown State School, Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
Occupation:	Stockman
Died:	Meningitis, Egypt, 1 July 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Kantara War Memorial Cemetery Name commemorated on the Cooktown, Queensland, memorial., Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Suez Canal, Egypt
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

29 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2645, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Place of Enlistment Cairns, Queensland.
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 2645, 5th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 2645, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane
1 Jul 1917:	Involvement Trooper, 2645, 3 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2645 awm_unit: 3 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1917-07-01

A. Heaslop's hospital stay

We have here at Pontypridd Museum in South Wales, the diaries of the man who treated Trooper Heaslop before he died. A local of Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, the man's name was William Lloyd Jones and he was a private in the 1st Welsh Casualty Clearing Station, attached to the 53rd Welsh Division.

Although the details are scant, in his diary on Saturday 30th June 1917, Pte Jones writes that he was taken off the Italian ward and moved to the isolation ward to look after Mr Heaslop. Also in the isolation ward with Mr Heaslop were 'Chivers, Tom Evans, Dodd (and) Corpl. Theopholas'.

Pte Jones writes in his diary on Sunday 1st July 1917 that Heaslop died at 6:30 in the evening. He was buried on Monday 2nd July by a Capt. Knight.

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